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15 wrz 2014 · In 2011, Judge Wanger blocked a federal attempt to remove 300,000 acre-feet of water to protect Delta smelt. In making the decision, he cited the consequences of water removal on California water users.
15 gru 2010 · A federal judge Tuesday threw out much-disputed delta smelt protections that have cut water shipments to Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley, finding that federal biologists failed...
15 gru 2010 · A federal judge yesterday threw out a federal scientific study that forms the basis for protecting the delta smelt in California's sprawling Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
4 lut 2015 · In the Consolidated Delta Smelt Cases, two district court opinions for the Eastern District of California review a Biological Opinion (“BiOp”) issued in 2008 by the Fish and Wildlife Service (“FWS”) that placed restrictions on the Projects’ operations to protect endangered species.
The delta smelt’s habitat is the delta where the seawater from the Pacific Ocean mixes with freshwater from the Sacramento River and San Joaquin River (the “Bay Delta”).
They were listed as threatened by both federal and state governments in 1993, and sustained record-low abundance indices, prompted their listing as endangered under the California Endangered Species Act in 2010. [19] [20] Critical habitat was listed for delta smelt on December 19, 1994. [21]
The struggle to save the delta smelt, a fish native to the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta ecosystem, has mobilized conservationists and pitted farmers, urban dwellers, and industrial interests against one another in a fierce debate over state water policy.
